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You Better Wash Your Hands!
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Tags: Germs, infectious diseases, washing hands, prevention, fight germs, bacteria
What is the cheapest, easiest, single best way to prevent the spread of bad germs? Wash your hands. This is the CDC's guidelines for how and when to wash hands:
| | Always use warm, running water and a mild, preferably liquid, soap. Antibacterial soaps may be used but are not required. |
| | Wet the hands and apply a small amount (dime to quarter size) of liquid soap to hands. Rub hands together vigorously until a soapy lather appears and continue for at least 15 seconds. Be sure to scrub between fingers, under fingernails and around the tops and palms of the hands. |
| | Rinse hands under warm running water. Leave the water running while drying hands. |
| | Dry hands with a clean, disposable (or single use) towel. Turn the faucet off using the towel as a barrier between your hands and the faucet handle. Remember, dirty hands turned the faucet on. |
| | Adults should wash hands before eating or handling food; before feeding a child; after using the toilet; after diapering or helping a child use a toilet; after work or outdoor activities; after handling pets; or wiping a child's nose or mouth. |
| | Children should be taught to wash their hands immediately before and after eating, after using the toilet, after playing with pets or pet objects, after playing on the playground or whenever their hands are visibly dirty. |
| | For those noncompliant little ones, make hand washing a daily activity. Teach them hand washing games and even songs to help keep the germs away. |
| | Hospitals are now promoting the use of alcohol-based handwashing dispensers to prevent transmission of disease in the health care setting. It is not yet known if these dispensers will be useful in the home. |
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